A quoting system for housing components, especially cabinets, includes a product database storing a plurality of product identifiers for different cabinet components, each having an associated cabinet style. The system further includes a quote database storing a plurality of quotes, each quote relating each of a plurality of pricing groups with each of a plurality of floorplans. A user interface permits a user to associate each of the plurality of styles with one of the plurality of pricing groups. One style within each pricing group may be selected as the primary, so that pricing of all of the styles in the pricing group will be based upon the pricing of the primary style and the pricing of all of the other styles in that pricing group will be overridden automatically.
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1. A cabinet quoting system comprising: a product database storing a plurality of product identifiers, each having an associated style; a quote database storing a plurality of quotes, each quote relating each of a plurality of pricing groups with each of a plurality of floorplans; and a user interface programmed to permit a user to associate each of the plurality of styles with one of the plurality of pricing groups.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the quote database associates a group price with each of the plurality of floorplans for each of the plurality of pricing groups.
3. The system of claim 2 wherein the quote database associates each of the product identifiers with a product price and wherein the quote database overrides the product price of a selected product identifier of the plurality of product identifiers to implement the group price associated with the associated pricing group of the selected product identifier.
4. The system of claim 3 wherein the user interface displays a list of the plurality of styles so that the user can associate each of the plurality of styles with one of the plurality of pricing groups.
5. The system of claim 1 wherein the quote database includes room total prices each associated with one of the plurality of pricing groups for each of the plurality of floorplans.
6. A method for generating quotes for cabinets for a housing development including the steps of: associating a quote with a plurality of floorplans in a computer database; associating each of the plurality of floorplans with a set of cabinet components in the database; associating each of a plurality of cabinet styles to one of a plurality of pricing groups in the database; and generating a floorplan price for each of the plurality of floorplans for each of the plurality of pricing groups based upon the associated set of cabinet components in the database.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein each of the plurality of cabinet components is associated with one of the cabinet styles and wherein each of the plurality of cabinet components has an associated component price, the method further including the step of overriding the component price based upon the group price associated with the cabinet style that is associated with the component.
8. A cabinet quoting system comprising: a product database storing a plurality of product identifiers for a plurality of cabinet components, each having an associated cabinet style; a quote database storing a plurality of quotes, each quote relating each of a plurality of pricing groups with each of a plurality of floorplans; and a user interface programmed to permit a user to associate each of the plurality of styles with one of the plurality of pricing groups, the user interface programmed to permit the user to change a group price for each of the plurality of pricing groups.
9. The system of claim 8 wherein the quote database associates a group price with each of the plurality of floorplans for each of the plurality of pricing groups.
10. The system of claim 9 wherein the user interface displays a list of the plurality of styles so that the user can associate each of the plurality of styles with one of the plurality of pricing groups.
11. The system of claim 10 wherein the quote database includes room total prices for each of the plurality of pricing groups for each of the plurality of floorplans.
12. The system of claim 11 wherein the user interface is programmed to change the room total prices based upon the user changing the associated pricing group of one of the plurality of styles.
13. The system of claim 8 wherein more than one of the plurality of styles are associated with each of the plurality of pricing groups.
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August 11, 2005
March 30, 2010
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